ADVERTISEMENT In that light, and in order to help rebuild the nation’s trust in DOJ’s independence after four years of turmoil, we urge DOJ not to appeal D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s May 3 decision to order the release of this OLC memo, they wrote.
The group of Democrats was led by Sen. Dick Durbin
Jackson s decision came in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in 2019 by the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought internal DOJ documents that Barr cited to determine that Trump s conduct during his early days as president did not amount to obstruction of justice.
Biden’s Court-Packing Commission Unconcerned With the ConstitutionBy Jordan Sekulow16209143400001620914340000
Packing the Supreme Court would be one of the most radical acts ever carried out by a U.S. President. In fact, not since 1937 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to add six seats to the Supreme Court has any President seriously considered this far-reaching act. When FDR first tried this, he faced intense opposition, even from a Democrat-controlled Congress. But President Biden recently issued an Executive order establishing the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which will seek to provide an analysis of the principal arguments for and against Supreme Court reform.
President Biden has announced his intent to nominate three new Court of Appeals nominees and three new District Court nominees, who will bring deep credentials and qualifications to the federal bench, as well as career-long devotion to our Constitution and the rule of law. These individuals embody President Biden’s commitment to ensure that his judicial nominees represent not only the excellence but the diversity of our nation with respect to both personal and professional backgrounds.
Many of them are groundbreaking choices, including:
the second judge of Hispanic origin to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the second judge from Puerto Rico ever to sit on the First Circuit;
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The head of Maryland’s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan’s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as “political posturing,” criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state’s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they were killed.
The scathing criticism comes after Hogan on Saturday issued the blanket pardons for Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black child who was hanged from a sycamore tree after he was convicted of raping and assaulting a White woman, and 33 other victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933.
Maryland NAACP leader blasts Gov. Larry Hogan s posthumous pardons of lynching victims as political posturing
Updated 10:00 AM ET, Tue May 11, 2021
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, far right, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones stand next to a new historic marker on Saturday in Towson, Maryland, that memorializes Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885. Hogan signed a posthumous pardon for 34 men, including Cooper, who were lynched in the state between 1854 and 1933 without due process against allegations they faced. (CNN)The head of Maryland s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as political posturing, criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they w